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R. BUDDY.

LUBRIGATOB.

110.334.679 PatentedJan.19,1886.

3 UNITED TATES ROBERT BUDDY, OF MOUNT VERNON, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATHAN MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LUBRICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,679, dated January 19, 18L6.

Application filed November 23, 1885. Serial No. 183,702. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, ROBERT BUDDY, of Mount Vernon, in the county of VVestchester and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Lubricators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is directed to lubricators of the class known as sight-feed lubricators, and intended more particularly for use with locomotives.

In running locomotives it sometimes happens that the sight'feed glass of the lnbricator is accidentally broken. In any such case it is necessary to shut off the lubricator in order to prevent the discharge of steam and oil through the broken glass. In most instances it is difficult,if not indeed impossible,in event of such an accident to replace the glass duringthe run of the engine, and thus the engineer isleft without practicable means of oiling the engine valves and cylinders.

It is the object of my invention to provide for these contingencies, and this I do by combining with thelubricator proper a simple and effective ancillary oiler, forming part of the lubricator, but in its action independent of and separate from said lubricator.

I am aware that in a general way it has heretofore been proposed to so construct and arrange lubricators-particulmrly sight -feed lubricators-as to provide means by which the oiling might be effected even though the main lubricator should become damaged or incapacitated for work. I do not therefore lay claim, broadly, to this feature. 1

My invention consists in the special means, hereinafter described, whereby I attain the result I have in view. Y

The nature of the invention and the manner in which the same is or may be carried into effect will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of alubricator embodying my improvement, the section being taken on line 1 2 3, Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same,looking in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the same on line 5 5, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a like section on line 4, Fig. 1, omitting the steam-valve and waste-cock.

The improvement is particularly designed for and adapted to that kind of lubricator described in Letters Patent N 0. 316,834, of April 28, 1885, and N 0. 324,339, of August 11, 1885.

The lubricator shown in the drawings, except as to the new feature introduced into it, is similar in construction and arrangement to the lubricator shown and described in the Letters Patent last above named.

F is the oil-chamber of the lubricator; A, the main steam-conduit; B, the vertical steamchannel; 0, the condenser; D, the extension of channel B. H J K L are the parts by which the water of condensation is fed from the condensing-chamber to the oil-chamber. Eis the sight-feed glass. G P O are the sight-feed glass connections. N is the oil-feed pipe leading from the upper part of the oil-chamber to the lower connection, 0, and I is the nozzle. All of these parts are arranged togetherand 7o operate in the manner described with reference to the like-lettered parts in Patent No. 324, 339, and they therefore require no further expla nation here. The lubricator, like the patented device, is provided with a steam-valve, S, and a waste or draw'off cock or valve, T.

I now proceed to describe the improvement which I have added to the lubricator. I provide a small auxiliary oil-cup, a, provided with a neck or stem, which screws into the side wall of the lubricator and communicates, through its channel or, with the channel e, cast in the body of the lubricator, and from channel e continues achannel, f, drilled in the solid metal of the shank or stem of the lubricator, so as to open into the steam-conduit A at a point below or beyond the steam-valve S. It will thus be seen that this auxiliary oiler, while forming part of the lubricator structure, has no communication with the operative parts of the sight-feed lubricator, is not in any sense dependent thereon for its efficiency, butis en tirely independent of and separated from the same, having its own supplyof oil and its-own independent access to the steam conduit. Consequently the steam, water, and sight-feed valves can be operated without in any way affecting the auxiliary oiler. The oil-cup (1, provided with a tubular internally screwthreaded socket, b, in which screw the valve 0, K0 controlling openings m, which put the interior of the oil-cup in communication with the channel 02, has the form and construction ofthe ordinary tallow-cnp, well known to every engine-driver; and its adaptation to the special purpose for which it is here intended therefore affords the simplest and safest means of auxiliary oiling, should the engine be temporarily deprived of the use of the lnbricator proper. The auXiliary-oiler might be differently located as, for instance, it might be screwed directly into the shank or stem of the lubrieator below or beyond the steam-valve; but I prefer the arrangement shown as being on the whole the most compact and convenient.

Having described my improvement and the best way known to me of carrying the same into effect, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A sight-feed lnbricator provided with an anxiliarv oiler of the described form and construction screwed into the lower part of the lubricatorand comm unicatingby its;own separate and independent channel with the steam-conduit at a point below or beyond the steamvalve.

2. A sightfeed lnbricator having the independent channel cf, located as described, and provided with the auxiliary oiler a, as and fer the purposes herei nbefore set forth.

3. A lnbrieator having the oil and condensing chambers F C, the steam channel B, and the steam-conduit A, and provided with an auxiliary oiler and a channel therefor independent of and separate from the channel 13, but communicating also with the steam-conduit A, as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of November, 1885.

ROBERT BUDDY.

Witnesses:

CHARLES JUDGE, ADoLPH BARGEBUHR. 

